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Odorous Ants - Tapinoma
Copyright © 2006 tom murray

Odorous Ants - Tapinoma
Lancaster, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
April 2, 2006
Size: 3mm
There was a rove beetle running around under the rock with the ants.
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Contributed by tom murray on 2 April, 2006 - 9:36pm

Cropping
Why don't you submit another image, tightly cropped, of the beetle? Oh, well, I just saw that you already did just that.
… Beatriz Moisset, 3 April, 2006 - 6:46pm login or register to post comments

Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae
The rove beetle is a nice Aleocharinae. Get rid of the ants and photograph the beetle!
… Donald S. Chandler, 3 April, 2006 - 8:38am login or register to post comments

 
ants/beetles or beetles/ants
They looked like one big happy family, and there's ant-like stone beetles, and ant-loving beetles, so why not a shot of ants and beetles. :-}
… tom murray, 3 April, 2006 - 7:16pm login or register to post comments

 
Ant war
Whooo boy I sense an impending war between the ant lovers and the coleopterists! Why can't we just get along?

(Ha)

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com
… Stephen Cresswell, 3 April, 2006 - 2:57pm login or register to post comments

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